picture of the day

Hopefully I don't look like this when I'm fixing a computer...

google calender with safari bug

Just encountered a little bug using google calender with Safari 2.0.4 where if I click on any of the links at the top it brings up a quick event box.

my customer base

Ok, I ran the data and here are the results of the types of computers my customers use:

Since the text is too small, I'll explain. Blue is PC's, Red is Mac's, and Orange is Linux. The percentages (rounded to the nearest % so it may not add to 100%) are 80% for PC, 17% for Mac, and 2% for Linux.

go mac mini!

So I got a Mac Mini (delivered in one day from Amazon.com even though it was 2nd day shipping!). It's the basic model ringing in at $600. I've been tooling around on it all day and I must say I am quite pleased. My only gripe is that it didn't come with Leopard (10.5) pre-installed. Fortunately, Apple is going to ship the DVD for $10.86 USD.

The old 15" LCD with a 15-pin VGA connection worked flawlessly. My generic USB mouse and keyboard were also a breeze to setup. The apple command key is replaced by the windows start key on the keyboard I use, so no problem there.

Haven't really dug into it since I want to hold off until Leopard is installed. I just changed my background, screensaver, and expose options. Adding a Dell AIO 946 printer on the network took at most a minute. Connecting to the WPA-protected wireless network was even easier. All of this just tells me that Apple is bound to have a majority of the OS market eventually. I wonder what the numbers are right now?

I will have to tally up all my customers and get a percentage of the Mac computers I have serviced. But I will also add the factor of how much money I've made in that arena (which I'm guessing is less since Mac's are more reliable).

electronic signatures

While reading through the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act here: http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/archives/ulc/fnact99/1990s/ueta99.htm, I thought of some things. I don't understand why a complex digitally encrypted key has to be generated and read by the signee and signors.

Interesting Idea...

I tried Googling myself tonight and found that there are plenty of people that share my name. And I was happy to find myself in the first ten results (and it was good profile of me on the Cal Alumni website). An interesting thing to do is to catalogue the different professions of all the S.D.'s and see which are most numerous. Afterall, what's in a name?

vista and bush

The two subjects don't really have any thing in common, I just decided to combine two blogs. First, a couple weeks ago, I had the task of transferring data from a machine running windows xp to a machine running vista. Much to my dismay, windows decided to drop firewire networking support for vista. If it had been there, I would have been able to transfer files directly through a 400mb/sec connection. Instead, I ended up backing up everything to an external HD and then carefully moving over everything to the new machine. Needless to say, it was a hell of a job, and it makes me even more vehemently opposed to anyone having to use Vista.

The other subject is lighter. Here are two funny, fake pictures of our fearless leader: